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posted onJanuary 4, 2018
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capital source He’s back, and he is not letting a stretch in a federal penitentiary get in the way of his political activities.   For pols who shunned Donald Trump’s candidacy, 2017 has been an annus horribilis. Except, of course, for Governor Baker.

Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onJanuary 4, 2018
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US Senator Edward Markey urged Congress to enact legislation to grant legal status to about 800,000 people who were brought to the United States illegally as minors.   President Trump unleashed on his former chief strategist and campaign manager Wednesday, issuing a long and unusual statement questioning Steve Bannon’s mental stability, honesty, and political influence.  State Senator Dean Tran’s victory was a rare coup for the Massachusetts Republican Party: He flipped a seat long held by Democrats in the Dec.

Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onJanuary 4, 2018
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US Senator Edward Markey urged Congress to enact legislation to grant legal status to about 800,000 people who were brought to the United States illegally as minors.   President Trump unleashed on his former chief strategist and campaign manager Wednesday, issuing a long and unusual statement questioning Steve Bannon’s mental stability, honesty, and political influence.  State Senator Dean Tran’s victory was a rare coup for the Massachusetts Republican Party: He flipped a seat long held by Democrats in the Dec.

Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onJanuary 4, 2018
by admin
US Senator Edward Markey urged Congress to enact legislation to grant legal status to about 800,000 people who were brought to the United States illegally as minors.   President Trump unleashed on his former chief strategist and campaign manager Wednesday, issuing a long and unusual statement questioning Steve Bannon’s mental stability, honesty, and political influence.  State Senator Dean Tran’s victory was a rare coup for the Massachusetts Republican Party: He flipped a seat long held by Democrats in the Dec.

Trump zeroes in on Abedin in latest Clinton attack | TheHill

posted onJanuary 3, 2018
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MORE and her close aide Huma Abedin on Tuesday, tweeting that Abedin didn’t follow security protocols and put “classified passwords” in the hands of foreign agents. Trump appeared to be referencing a story in The Daily Caller reporting that Abedin had forwarded State Department passwords to her personal Yahoo email account and that was likely compromised in subsequent breaches reported by the email provider. Taking to Twitter on Tuesday morning, Trump wrote: “Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aid (sic) Huma Abedin has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols.

Congressional investigators find irregularities in FBI's handling of Clinton email case | TheHill

posted onJanuary 3, 2018
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MORE’s email server. For the first time, investigators say they have secured written evidence that the FBI believed there was evidence that some laws were broken when the former secretary of State and her top aides transmitted classified information through her insecure private email server, lawmakers and investigators told The Hill. That evidence includes passages in FBI documents stating the “sheer volume” of classified information that flowed through Clinton’s insecure emails was proof of criminality as well as an admission of false statements by

Trump: I have a 'much bigger' button than Kim Jong Un | TheHill

posted onJanuary 3, 2018
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on Tuesday, calling for a dialogue between Seoul and Pyongyang aimed at de-escalating tensions ahead of the Winter Games. Trump’s latest tweet, however, appeared to challenge Kim’s claim that North Korea has become a functional nuclear power, while delivering a warning that he stood ready to retaliate against a possible nuclear launch by Pyongyang. The Trump administration has said little about the possibility of talks between North and South Korea, and Trump was unclear in a Tuesday morning tweet about whether the U.S.